Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford simultaneously with its impeachment inquiry. While no timetable was set, the Democratic majority wants to cushion the impact of possible impeachment by keeping the White House in Republican hands and assuring the continuation of Nixon's general foreign and domestic policies. Ford's elevation also would avert a bitter partisan fight over succession; Speaker Albert has no longing for the presidency. The Senate Rules Committee had also decided to move promptly on Ford, awaiting only a full background check by 70 FBI agents before setting hearings...
...which "we are at one and the same time adversaries and partners in the preservation of peace." In the Middle East, it was a bad omen for the future of an international peace-keeping operation that would be difficult enough as a result of three weeks of furious and bitter fighting...
...objective at the time the cease-fire was to begin. They broke the cease-fire by attacking Egyptian forces and entering Adabiya south of Suez and attacking the city of Suez. They were hoping to cut off the Third Army and claim the whole area from Adabiya to the Bitter Lakes as their position at the time of the ceasefire. An emergency United Nations force must come in and make them move to their positions...
...Workers, Usery has made no enemies as the Government's "middleman" in labor disputes. He has been a tenacious round-the-clock bargainer who often appealed to negotiators' patriotism. Usery was instrumental in averting a walkout of 13,000 railroad signalmen in 1969 and later settled a bitter, eleven-week teachers' strike in Philadelphia. In directing and coordinating the political, civil rights and community-affairs activities of the AFL-CIO'S extensive field staffs, he is expected to wield enormous influence within the labor movement. His lack of a solid power base within...
...understandable why Britain's blacks are so bitter. Though Britain's 1968 Race Relations Act has made most forms of race discrimination illegal, complaints of the color bar in employment, education and housing continue to mount. There has been a steady growth in unemployment among West Indians, and the 1971 census revealed that unemployment among young blacks (many of whom have been educated in Britain and therefore expect more than their immigrant parents) is twice that of white youths, despite the fact that West Indians are not predominantly located in areas of high unemployment...